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| Matthew Arnoldb: Laleham, England, Dec 24, 1822 d: Liverpool, England, Apr 15, 1888 English. Author. Critic. Oxford Professor, known for poem "Dover Beach," 1853; social criticism Culture and Anarchy, 1869; son of Thomas.
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment. Greatness is a spiritual condition. It is so small a think to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done. Journalism is literature in a hurry. Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character
of perfection as culture conceives it.The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion. The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. |
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